/dev/null as a file-like object, or logging to nothing

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

Is there a portable and simply way to direct file-like IO to simply
nothing?  I try to implement some sort of NullLogging by saying

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
import logging
if options.logging:
    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG, filename=options.logfile, filemode="w",
                        format='%(asctime)s %(name)s %(levelname)s   %(message)s')
else:
    # redirect logging to a memory buffer in order to simply ignore it.
    import StringIO
    logging.basicConfig(stream=StringIO.StringIO())
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

However, this consumes memory.  Is there a better way?

Tschö,
Torsten.

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